The third Ladies European Thailand Championship, which will take place next week at the Phoenix Gold Golf and Country Club, will feature the best field in the history of the event. The official entry list shows that eight of the top ten players in the LET Order of Merit will be in contention.

Skarpnord tops the Ladies European Thailand Championship

Marianne Skarpnord at the Pacific Bay Resort Australian Ladies Classic - Bonville - © Tristan Jones / LET

The pre-Evian Championship and the AIG Women's British Open, which will take place from June 20 to 23, is the last event to count for the qualification of the European majors. The champion will qualify for the Evian, while the top 25 in the ranking of the order of merit according to the tournament results and the top three LET members of the event who are not otherwise exempted will be guaranteed participation. at the AIG Women's British Open.

Australian Ladies Classic - Bonville winner Marianne Skarpnord leads the field and will look to become the first European player to win the title, following Thailand's Atthaya Thitikul and Kanyalak Preedasuttijit in 2017 and 2018 respectively, both of whom are back to Pattaya in Thailand.

Esther Henseleit (no.3), Meghan MacLaren (no.4), Caroline Hedwall (no.5), Lina Boqvist (no.6), Olivia Cowan (no.8), Laura Fuenfstueck (no.9) and Diksha Dagar (n ° 10) will join n ° 2 of LET.

In addition, there will be 13 of the 20 best players on the board with the arrival of Karolin Lampert (11th), Hannah Burke (13th), Annabel Dimmock (14th), Carly Booth (16th) and Charlotte Thompson (17th) and the last year's winners Becky Morgan, Caroline Hedwall, Kanyalak Preedasuttijit and Astrid Vayson de Pradenne.

Annabel Dimmock, recent Jabra Ladies Open champion, who finished 19th at last year's Ladies European Thailand Championship, said: “I love Thailand, the people are so friendly and welcoming. The food is excellent. It was very hot ! "

She took a few days off from her first tour win to celebrate it with her friends over a family barbecue, but said: “I am resuming my routine preparing for Thailand. The Thai girls hit a lot of regulation greens, so I'll try to do the same. I'm getting used to their type of grass a bit more and the grain on the greens. "

Beth Allen and Becky Brewerton, former LET Order of Merit winners, are also among the big names in the field, as are Solheim Cup player Florentyna Parker, Camille Chevalier and Julia Engstrom, the rookies in the lead in 2017 and 2018 respectively.